I don't know if anyone here was following but AKC had proposed to realign the "Groups" for conformation judging from 7 to 11 groups since some of the groups are so enormous. They had planned to split:
http://www.akc.org/pdfs/news/Realignment_SuggestedBreedList.pdf
Anyway...don't waste too much time looking at it because apparently the whole idea was voted down at the delegate meeting yesterday.
- Working group into 3 groups - Utility, Molosser, & Spitz
- Hound into two - Scent & Sight
- Sporting into two - Pointers/Setters & Retrievers/Spaniels
http://www.akc.org/pdfs/news/Realignment_SuggestedBreedList.pdf
Anyway...don't waste too much time looking at it because apparently the whole idea was voted down at the delegate meeting yesterday.